CAIRO - Seven tourists from Britain and Belgium were seriously injured on Wednesday when a balloon they were riding in fell to the ground in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, security sources said.The five tourists from Britain and two from Belgium had been photographing the city, home to the pharaonic Karnak Temple, when the balloon fell.

Ten Germans and five other tourists have been injured after their bus overturned on a mountain road near St Catherine's Monastery in southern Sinai.The Egyptian bus driver was killed and two Egyptian tourist guides were also injured in the accident.

A British plumber is recovering after having his penis partially chopped off by attackers while he was holidaying on a Caribbean island.Alan Reed, 43, was found lying in a pool of blood by his girlfriend Ellie Rothery, 21, after a night out in the popular resort of Cabarete in the Dominican Republic.

MANILA - Thirty-two passengers and three crew members of a small Filipino air line catering for tourists were slightly injured as the plane lost control when landing at an airport in Manila Sunday afternoon, reported local television network GMA News.